16 AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS 
That the Peruvian should also take high rank as a potter will be 
gathered from even a superficial study of the collection of all forms of 
pottery at the west end of the hall, since many of the vessels show real 
beauty of outline and form and excellence in their painted decoration. 
These qualities seem the more remarkable when we consider that the 
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makers had no knowledge of the potter’s wheel and were unacquainted 
with the art of glazing. Some of the vessels were shaped by 
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hand, but others show that they were formed by means of 
moulds. ‘The body was moulded in two parts which were joined by 
being pressed together. Spout or handle, if desired, was then attached, 
and all irregularities in the junctures remedied by scraping and rub- 
